HAL is adding extra printers to my printer list. It's driving me nuts.
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Mon May 14 14:23:37 UTC 2007
Hi;
Just adding some additional printing exploits, in case anybody is
interested.
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 00:50 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi; with particular attention to Tim Waugh,
>
> This was a sub-problem I had with my printer problem a week or two ago.
> Tim asked if I would work with him on fixing it. At that time I had got
> my printer working and removed the extra (shadow) printer and so
> couldn't be of much help.
>
> The shadow has returned.
>
> More precisely: psc_1310_series_
> Device URI [hp:/usb/psc_1310_series?serial=CN45PB613FO2] has been added
> to my list of printers by HAL, or something, at boot up.
>
> My originally designated and still existing printer is:
> psc-1315
> Device URI [usb://hp/psc%201310%20series?serial=CN45PB613FO2]
> marked also as default. When selected in applications this actually
> prints things.
>
psc-1315 no longer prints. All the printing (as of this Monday morning)
can now only be done through psc_1310_series_. I tested several
applications and the print test page before posting. Why? Saturday
psc_1310_series_ wouldn't print anything.
No new downloads; no reboots since the original post. Isn't
"psc_1310_series_" and "psc_1315" just a name or alias for the same
printer. Why is HAL using Device URI
[hp:/usb/psc_1310_series?serial=CN45PB613FO2]
while Fedora printer-config gui uses Device URI
[usb://hp/psc%201310%20series?serial=CN45PB613FO2]?
And, is that the difference? Why would things change? Household
gnomes??
I thought we had gotten rid of the HAL reconfiguring the printer over a
month or two ago??
> Both printer designations now appear in all my applications. The shadow
> appeared after I had stopped and restart hplip, unplugged and plugged in
> my printer and rebooted. I was attempting to get hp-toolbox to find my
> printer. It did, but used the psc_1310_series_. This printer cannot
> print the 'test page'.
>
> It probably can't print, because as we found out in an earlier exchange
> over printer problems, when this shadow printer appears, it is not a
> real printer.
> And, if I remember correctly, some confusion is being caused by the
> trailing '_' in its name.
>
> So, HP-toolbox gives me info about psc_1310_series_; HAL adds
> psc_1310_series_;
> but psc-1315 prints stuff.
>
> I would love to hear how to sort this out.
>
> --
> Regards Bill
>
--
Regards Bill
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